Re: OE6 can hang when clicking on links in emails

I wasn't quite sure what was happening in your first post. Whether it was OE just hanging or both OE and IE. Or whether links weren't working. Check out Michael's link first, then have a look at this.

http://www.oehelp.com/ielnk.aspx

Kath

d d wrote: 
Thanks Kath. That did initially look relevant but it's not exactly the
situation I have. I can start OE with no problems. Things go wrong
when I click a link in an email. This current session I've started and
had to kill the MSIMN.exe task 3 or 4 times because I keep clicking
on links in emails without thinking. I know for a fact that if I
reboot now, as soon as it's back up I'll be able to click on links in
emails again ... until the next time it happens ... some weeks down
the road.
~dd
"Kath Adams" <kathadams@(nospam)mvps.org> wrote in message
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d d wrote: 
Hi,

Is it a known problem (with a solution) that sometimes you can click
on
a http link in a plaintext or html email and not only does the link
not open,
but the cursor is permanently a pointing-finger and OE totally
hangs? I'm in this state right now. Every time I kill MSIMN.EXE and
then reopen it and click on any link in any email, it hangs OE. If I
reboot my PC it will work just fine until the next time (maybe in a
week, maybe in a month) where it will have this strangeness again.

When it gets in this state I have to remember to right-click each
link and select "copy link location" and manually open the browser.
I have it set to have IE as my default browser and always open in a
new window.

~dd 

OLEXP Stops Responding and Your Pointer Is an Hourglass
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=259927


--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)




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